323 – Tolkien Reading Day 2024

The Prancing Pony Podcast

Alan Sisto

Film Reviews, Books, Tv & Film, Arts

4.8 • 2.2K Ratings

🗓️ 24 March 2024

⏱️ 126 minutes

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Summary

Put your own priorities aside and get ready to do the hard thing as you join us for the PPP’s ninth annual celebration of Tolkien Reading Day, observed every March 25 in honor of the destruction of the Ring and the fall of Barad-dûr. This year’s theme, as chosen by the Tolkien Society, is Service and Sacrifice — and wow, there are lots of great passages to choose from! The Man of the West and The Shield-maiden of Rohan join forces to highlight this powerful theme seen throughout Tolkien’s writing: from Éowyn and her frustration with ‘duty’, to the obvious Húrin moment; from Galadriel’s diminished joy, to a wet bicycle ride. Plus, Amandil’s private island is now head canon.

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0:00.0	Good evening Little Masters and welcome to episode 323 of the prancing
0:15.8	pony podcast where today we're continuing our break from the text we're just
0:19.8	giving Faramir and Aoyan some quality time together.
0:23.3	Hush! Aoyan just glared at you.
0:25.9	Folks, pull up a bench in the common room and join us.
0:29.4	I'm Sarah Brown, Shield Maiden of Rohan,
0:31.6	and I'm here with the man of the West,'s going to get another glare from Eowin if he doesn't stop it soon.
0:36.2	Alan Sisto. Yeah I'm just gonna back away with your hands in the air I would.
0:40.7	Yeah yeah just back away just back away. Thank you, Sara. And thank you for protecting me from
0:46.4	Ao is Claire. He said hopefully. Folks, it's hard to believe, but today we are celebrating
0:52.2	our ninth annual
0:53.8	Tolkien Reading Day special.
0:55.6	Wow.
0:56.6	I know it's like wait a minute there shows only been around eight years.
1:00.3	Well that's because our first one happened in 2016 when the PPP was barely a month old,
1:05.6	so we've done nine now and man time really flies.
1:09.1	Well, I hear it goes faster the older you are.
1:11.5	You'll have to let me know about that.
1:13.0	Wow!
1:14.0	Wow!
1:15.0	That'll teach me to leave a blank spot on the outline.
1:19.0	All right.
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